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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2018
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Benedict, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David Mathew Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott E. Solberg, San Jose, CA (US);
Jamie Kalb, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ravi Neelakantan, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jerome Unidad, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Charles Taylor, San Francisco, CA (US);
Frances Yan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A hand-held dispenser to dispense fluid includes a casing to fit into a hand of a user, a nozzle in the casing to dispense a mist, a fluid reservoir contained in the casing to hold a fluid to be turned into the mist, a filament extension atomizer contained in the casing to generate the mist, an air source contained in the casing to provide air flow to direct the mist to the nozzle, a motor contained in the casing to operate the filament extension atomizer, an actuator positioned on the casing to activate the dispenser, a control circuit contained in the casing to receive a signal from the actuator and to send a signal to the motor to cause the motor to actuate, and a power source contained in the casing to provide power to the motor upon receive a signal from the control circuit.